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Volume 86, Number 1B
Research Article| February 01, 1996
Preliminary seismic hazard assessment for Los Angeles, Ventura, and Orange counties, California, affected by the 17 January 1994 Northridge earthquake
Mark D. Petersen
California Department of Conservation Division of Mines and Geology
801 K St. MS 12-31
Chris H. Cramer
William A. Bryant
Michael S. Reichle
Tousson R. Toppozada
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1996) 86 (1B): S247–S261.
Mark D. Petersen, Chris H. Cramer, William A. Bryant, Michael S. Reichle, Tousson R. Toppozada; Preliminary seismic hazard assessment for Los Angeles, Ventura, and Orange counties, California, affected by the 17 January 1994 Northridge earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ; 86 (1B): S247–S261. doi: https://doi.org/
The seismic ground motion hazard is assessed for a 10% probability of exceedance in 50 years for the three counties (Los Angeles, Ventura, and Orange) impacted by the 1994 Northridge earthquake (Mw 6.7). The earthquake source model of the Southern California Earthquake Center has been modified with additional slip-rate information for mapped faults and blind thrusts and incorporated into seismic hazard maps that will be used for making regional hazard and risk mitigation decisions by state and local government agencies. Peak horizontal ground acceleration (pga) and 5% damped spectral acceleration (SA) (0.3 and 1 sec) were calculated with three equally weighted attenuation relationships of Boore et al. (1993), Campbell and Bozorgnia (1994), and Sadigh (written comm., 1994). The results of this assessment indicate high hazard over the entire tri-county area with ground motions exceeding 0.4 g (pga), 1.0 g (0.3-sec SA), and 0.5 g (1-sec SA) nearly everywhere. A Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis is described for two sites located in Los Angeles and Northridge. This analysis yields 95% confidence limits for peak ground acceleration at the two sites that range between ±0.1 and ±0.2 g. Our calculations indicate that the uncertainty in the magnitude-rupture length relations, magnitude distribution, moment-magnitude relation, attenuation relation, and slip-rate contribute most to the hazard uncertainty at these sites and that the highest uncertainties in the mapped ground motion are associated with the strongest anticipated ground motions.
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earthquake prediction
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Monte Carlo analysis
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A Monte Carlo approach in estimating uncertainty for a seismic hazard assessment of Los Angeles, Ventura, and Orange counties, California
A composite source model of the 1994 Northridge earthquake using genetic algorithms
Implications of the Northridge earthquake for strong ground motions from thrust faults
Provisional seismic zoning for ground failures in portions of Los Angeles and Ventura counties following the 17 January 1994 Northridge earthquake
Engineering implications of ground motions from the Northridge earthquake
Analysis of Horizontal Strong-Motion Attenuation in the Great 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake
The 2011 Mineral, Virginia, earthquake, and its significance for seismic hazards in eastern North America—Overview and synthesis
Potential earthquake faults offshore Southern California, from the eastern Santa Barbara Channel south to Dana Point
Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland
Advances in natural hazard science and assessment, 1963–2013
The Impact of the Geological Sciences on Society
Recent developments in understanding the tectonic evolution of the Southern California offshore area: Implications for earthquake-hazard analysis
Remotely triggered earthquakes following moderate main shocks
Continental Intraplate Earthquakes: Science, Hazard, and Policy Issues
Challenges in seismic hazard analysis for continental interiors


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Q: MotionLayout + RecyvlerView items How can I add a motion layout to the item recycler view, in which the user scrolling, every item in the list should change (the motion layout progress should change) without lags in scrolling?

A: This is a complex question depending on how you want the behavior to work.
We have created a series of examples
To help with various challenges of using the two together.
This is the most likely issue which is caching state of off screen elements.
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Home News Industry Leaders Reaction On Unlock 5.0 Announcement
Industry Leaders Reaction On Unlock 5.0 Announcement
In a much awaited development, the Government of India has issued new guidelines under the Unlock 5.0, providing a huge sigh of relief for the exhibition industry. As per the guidelines, the Business to Business (B2B) exhibitions will be permitted to resume with effect from 15th October 2020, provided they are hosted outside the COVID containment zones. For this, the SOPs will be issued by the Department of Commerce. While the industry awaits the SOP document with much anticipation, it will be interesting to see what protocols will be made mandatory for organising the exhibitions and in what spirit the organisers, venues and service providers receive them!
Positives for Events and Conferences sector too!
Although the social/academic/sports/entertainment/cultural/religious/political functions and other congregations had already been permitted with a ceiling of 100 persons (outside containment zones), as per the new guidelines of Unlock 5.0, now a maximum of 50% of the hall capacity will be allowed, with a ceiling of 200 persons, in closed spaces. Wearing of face masks, maintaining social distancing, provision for thermal scanning and use of hand wash or sanitizer will be mandatory.
It is also important to note that the document states that there shall be no restriction on inter-State and intra-State movement of persons and goods including those for cross land-border trade under Treaties with neighbouring countries. No separate permission/ approval/ e-permit will be required for such movements. Movement by passenger trains; domestic passenger air travel; movement of persons on Vande Bharat and Air Transport Bubble flights; and sign-on and sign-off of Indian seafarers will continue to be regulated as per SOPs issued. This is a significant development for the exhibitions/conferences/seminars/meetings sector.
The document also states that Entertainment parks and similar places will be permitted to open with effect from 15th October, 2020, for which the SOP will be issued by
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
It is noteworthy that a lot of industry leaders, industry bodies and associations have been working earnestly to make this happen. It was reaching to a point where the industry shoulders were beginning to drop but this announcement has brought much joy to the fraternity.
Exhibition Showcase spoke to some of the industry leaders to understand their reaction to this announcement. Excerpts;
Kai Hattendorf, CEO, UFI
UFI welcomes the decision by the Government of India to allow the exhibitions sector to re-open, and we want to thank all our industry colleagues on their relentless lobbying effort to make this happen. India now joins the growing list of countries where we as an industry can build and operate the much needed market places and meeting places for all the industries and sectors to recover from this pandemic as quickly as possible. Business events are not another 'problem' governments have to deal with now – they are a key part of the solution. As an industry, we know how to organise and run business events safely. With global standards and a growing number of successful shows taking place in Asia and around the world, we are showcasing that every day again.
Rajesh Agrawal, ED, ITPO & Chairman, India MICE Alliance
The decision of the Government to allow B2B exhibitions in the country from 15th October onwards outside the containment zones is an extremely welcome step. It shows the government's confidence and commitment towards support to the exhibition sector which plays an important role in promoting businesses and trade across the country. Now it's time for the exhibition industry to come forward and work collectively towards holding of trade shows with strict adherence to SOP and requisite COVID precautions in place. We will need to make small beginnings and graduate to pre-COVID levels in next 6-9 months. #WeSupportExhibitions
Balasubramanian S Pillai, ED & COO, IMTMA & BIEC, President, IEIA
Indian Exhibition industry extends its thanks to the Ministry of Home Affairs for its decision to open B2B exhibitions from October 15 as it bodes well for the country's economic growth. This will benefit the various SMEs and MSMEs that were affected by the COVID pandemic as well as people at the bottom of the pyramid, the most vulnerable sector of the society. The announcement was the need of the hour and will go a long way in providing support during this unprecedented situation. The industry now awaits the SOP from Department of Commerce and continue to play a crucial role in furthering "Atmanirbhar Bharat".
RAKESH KUMAR, DG, EPCH , Chairman, IEML & Chairman, Advocacy Committee, IEIA
It's a panacea for industry in today's situation. Our industry has been very resilient. We will come over from our past and back to our business as usual by end of October. IEML is ready with all SOPs and compliance protocols and ready to welcome the industry.
Yogesh Mudras, Managing Director, Informa Markets in India
The Government's nod to physical trade expos is cause for joyous celebrations for the industry. It is symbolic of the faith the Government reposes in trade expos as catalysts to rebuilding the economy, and to uphold safety protocols and security of multitudes of people. It is also the glorious result of the unceasing efforts & advocacy of the exhibitions industry which had stood together to petition to the government to allow it to start functioning without further delay. It brings back renewed hopes among millions of industrious people associated with trade expos, who had suffered greatly due to COVID-19 related restrictions. Honestly, we can't wait to get started and will spare no efforts to justify the faith entrusted upon us!
Ravinder Sethi, CMD, RE Rogers India
This news was "very very" eagerly awaited. Credit to our entire fraternity in making this happen. It has been a thorough teamwork. It's, however, also critical to maintain extreme caution – SOPs have to be strictly adhered to. Last thing we want is getting back to square one due to negligence and laxity.
Roshan Abbas, President, EEMA
The work that EEMA's Govt Interaction committee has done has been superlative and constant pressure and making our invisible industry visible to the government has resulted in this. Our COVID safety protocol went a long way in ensuring that government looks at us favorably. The resultant opening of events and exhibitions is a great development, but we need to keep the safety protocols in mind One misstep by exhibitors and event managers can translate into our work being shut down. this is the perfect time to show how responsible we are and how responsive.
Sunil More, President, IESA
On behalf of IESA and on behalf of the event industry fraternity, I thank Government for issuing order opening up the B2B business exhibitions in October 2020. We sincerely hope that this move will help rolling the wheels of the event industry.
Girish Kwatra, Hony. Secretary, ICPB
I think it's a great news and the best thing that we can have in difficult times. In my opinion, business events are the best mode to reignite the economy. Now, shift in the economy can be seen in all the fields once business events start to take place. Similarly, conferences are also going to start in October as per the fresh guidelines of MHA. We have high hopes that congregations restricted to size of 200 people currently in Unlock 5 will definitely rise to 500-700 people in days to come. But, what is most important for organisers, venues and participants is that they should ensure the safety protocols to be followed strictly.
Sanjoy Roy, Co-Chair: Art & Culture Chapter, FICCI
We welcome the government's decision to open entertainment and exhibition centers. We must ensure strict COVID protocol in this phase and keep the visitors and those engaged in the industry safe.
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Rugby Borough Council
Neighbours fight new homes plan
THE grounds of a home which belonged to a high-society couple has been earmarked for housing....
THE grounds of a home which belonged to a high-society couple has been earmarked for housing.
Rugby-based agent Howkins and Harrison has applied to build five homes on land at Shepherd?s Hey, in Dunchurch Road, Rugby. The cottage on the site would be retained, with the houses built in the grounds.
The application has prompted objections from seven neighbours, whose homes in Long Furlong back on to the site.
The cottage was the Grade II-listed home of Charles and Irene Kneller.
When Mrs Kneller died last August, Leamington-based auctioneers Locke and England discovered a treasure trove of artefacts, paintings and furniture which she had moved to the basement after her husband died.
The lot was auctioned for a total of #1,250,000.
The bereaved Mrs Kneller had become reclusive and the house became shrouded by trees and bushes. When she died, Shepherd?s Hey passed to a distant relative and Howkins and Harrison took on its sale.
Rugby Borough Council planning officers have recommended approval of the development and councillors will consider it after planning committee members have arranged a site visit.
Chairman Cllr Hazel Bell (Con, St Mary?s) said: ?This is a very important site with a lot of history. It?s vital that we have a look at it and make it absolutely certain that not only are we giving the correct planning decision, but also that we are conscious of tree preservation orders.?
The neighbours? objections include loss of wildlife, loss of privacy, loss of trees which are subject to preservation orders, and the need to protect Shepherd?s Hey as a listed building.
The application will be decided at a future planning meeting.


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Home Jaguar Jaguar XE Sedan Engine and Chassis Information Revealed
Jaguar XE Sedan Engine and Chassis Information Revealed
July 28, 2014 | Rohan Patil
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Jaguar has already announced the reveal date for their upcoming BMW 3-Series rival- XE. Jaguar will be revealing the XE sedan on September 8 this year, and now we have some more details on the engine and chassis for the car.
As already reported by us, Jaguar will be using the new Ingenium range of engines on the upcoming models. This new turbo-diesel engine architecture boasts of being a modular setup that can be scaled up or down depending on the capacity and cylinder-configuration requirement. Each cylinder has a capacity of 500cc. A 2.o liter four pot motor will debut XE. Jaguar hints that a 1.5-litre, three-cylinder and a 3.0-litre, six-cylinder motor are also being considered for other Jaguar – Land Rover vehicles.
Compared to the current generation of engines, the 2.0-litre Ingenium diesel engine is claimed to be 80 kgs lighter with 17 per cent better frictional economy and best-in-class fuel efficiency. With electronically controlled oil-pumps, water-pumps and piston cooling jets, the engine can reach its optimum operating temperature faster, reducing CO2 emissions to as low as 100g/km and improving the thermal and energy efficiency.
As already known, Jaguar will be making generous use of aluminium across the chassis and mechanical components for the XE. The XE sedan will get the new Integral-Link rear suspension setup, which is compact in nature and is made from forged or hollow-cast aluminium.
The XE will also introduce Jaguar's first electric power-steering system that claims to be as precise as its hydraulic systems but promises to improve steering feel. The XE will also feature electronic aids such as automated parking and active lane keeping. The sedan will also feature an 'All Surface Progress Control', which can get the car going on snowy or slate surfaces without the need of driver intervention. This will be possible due to the electronics that act like a rear differential and assist the car in gaining traction at slow speeds on slippery surfaces.
Jaguar has already confirmed that XE will come with the F-type's supercharged V6 engine. The XE will also spawn a SVR under Jaguar's new project. Rumoured to feature the F-type's 5.0-litre supercharged V8 engine under its hood, the XE SVR is said to churn out a whopping 500PS/600Nm, which will give the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG and the BMW M3 a run for their money.
The Jaguar XE India launch will happen sometime next year.
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Newly named White House House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held his first conventional press briefing on Monday to a packed room of reporters.
Billed as the "first official" press briefing of the new administration, the conference followed a bizarre episode that took place over the weekend, when Spicer christened the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room by delivering a prepared statement that admonished the media for reporting on President Donald Trump's inauguration attendance. On Monday, Spicer was able to expand on the obsession with crowd sizes, as well as provide insight into early policy considerations.
Spicer said the rationale for the Trump administration's "running war" with the media was due to efforts by the press to undercut the president's "enormous support." Spicer admitted that the negative press coverage had been "a little demoralizing." He suggested that reporting thus far has gone beyond objective journalism, saying that there was a "constant attempt to undermine [Trump's] credibility and the movement he represents."
Spicer cited the times the media expressed doubt in Trump's campaign as examples of how the press were treating the president unfairly. But the press secretary seemed to be conflating the media's underestimation of Trump with their stringent fact checking on him.
.@seanspicer is now equating fact checking admin's false statements with underestimating Trump. They are not the same.
Spicer did eventually concede that Trump's crowd size in the mall for his inauguration did not surpass former President Barack Obama's totals in 2009.
The questions at the press briefing did not limit themselves to crowd sizes, however, as Spicer was asked a range of questions facing Trump's presidency.
Spicer said that the executive order announcing the administration's withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership was largely symbolic because Congress had not yet approved the trade agreement. He said the order should usher "a new era of trade policy" in which Trump will pursue bilateral trade agreements.
As far as foreign security interests, Spicer received questions related to Trump's comments in Langley, Virginia Saturday when he hinted to the CIA that the U.S. may get another chance of removing the oil in Iraq. Spicer would not commit to any guarantees when it came to international relations in the Middle East, but he did say that Trump's military decisions would be based on "doing something that either protects America or is in our economic interest." Spicer also fielded a question on ISIS and the war in Syria.
When asked about the Dakota Access Pipeline, Spicer indicated Trump would revisit the plan and likely would support its continued construction so that the U.S. "maximizes" its natural resources "for economic benefit."
The most substantial revelation from the briefing was Spicer's claim that Trump would not impede any investigations into possible connections with his campaign and Russia. The new press secretary again criticized Democrats for stalling Trump's Cabinet confirmations, as nominees such as Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo had not yet received a vote in the Senate.


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Letterpress is a type of mechanical press that uses relief printing as a key component for creating printed font and images. Relief printmaking is a process in which parts of the surface of a material are carved away. The remaining raised surface is then inked and printed. The oldest known form of relief printing are ocher earth hand prints that date back to prehistoric times. These hand prints are found in many caves around the world. The use of wood, which is a common material used for relief printing, dates back to ninth century China. Large scale, mass produced relief printing began in the mid-fifthteenth century due to large scale paper making. These mass produced prints were used to spread religious and informational texts and images. This mass production of prints led to the development of moveable type in China. There is archeological evidence of clay moveable type found in China as early as the eleventh century, and metal movable type in 1377. Word of this movable type travelled and found its way to Johannes Gutenberg, who was then inspired to create something that changed the world.
In the fifthteenth century, Johannes Gutenberg adapted the wine press and invented the printing press to suit his printing needs. This press held individual letters and numbers that would sit next to each other so that the printing surface of each piece would be at the same height. These individual letters and numbers would then create words and sentences to then be printed. Gutenberg's first major publication was the Gutenberg Bible, which was 1282 pages with 42 lines per page printed on vellum. The Gutenberg Bible was a printed edition of 30. This was during a time when religious text was slowly copied by hand and acquired by the exclusive wealthy. Gutenberg created the printed revolution, and created the profession of being a printer.
Stein, Jesse. "Masculinity and Material Culture in Technological Transitions: From Letterpress to Offset Lithography, 1960s-1980s." Technology and Culture 57.1 (2016): 24. Web.
Tredwell, Stephen M., Jr. "Advancing the Sustainability of Letterpress Print Production in the 21st Century." University of Central Oklahoma, 7 May 2015. Web. 12 Apr. 2016.
You mentioned Martha Stewart's handset wedding invitations as a bountiful part of letterpress's revival. Do you feel that this type (zing) of kitsch is benefitting letterpress or does it overshadow and distract from the importance and historical legacy of movable type? I personally am on the fence - while I appreciate that letterpress has become part of the collective consciousness again, I am upset of with all of the 'weekend warriors' buying up type and presses and making it more difficult for people that 'need' those materials to obtain them, as well as the horrible things that they make... Also, every time I see a type case hung vertically on the wall filled with knick-knacks, a part of me dies.
Letterpress seems so interesting I would love to learn how to do this.


PHOTOS BY JR PARACHINI – Summit, at right, defeated Rahway 36-14 in the Nov. 18 North 2, Group 3 state championship game at Summit's Tatlock Field.
SUMMIT – The visitors came back from a three-touchdown deficit and were on the verge of pulling even closer as the fourth quarter reached the midway point.
Suddenly the home team was on its heels a bit and needed a stop.
Having already done so in the first half Summit senior linebacker Jack Kelly was more than happy to deliver once more.
Rahway senior quarterback Jakir Robinson scrambled a bit, looking for an open receiver. His pass, intended to reach a target over the middle, was once again picked off.
Again it was Kelly who came up with the interception.
"I just read my keys and made a play on the ball," Kelly said.
Three plays later senior teammate Max Jackson broke free for a 70-yard touchdown run down the left sideline.
Summit survived and then thrived in large part to a performance No. 5 will never forget. Kelly produced two interceptions, both leading to Summit touchdowns, and caused a fumble that led to the final Hilltopper score, which he made on a reception.
Kelly's heroics sparked top-seeded Summit to decisive 36-14 victory over third-seeded Rahway in Sunday afternoon's North 2, Group 3 state championship game at Tatlock Field.
Summit won its fifth straight to improve to 10-1, while Rahway had a nine-game winning streak snapped and fell to 9-2.
Summit won 10 games for the first time since its last state championship team finished 12-0 in 2013.
Junior running back Joe Lusardi turned in a three-touchdown effort, all scores coming in the first half – the first on a short run and the last two on receptions.
Senior quarterback Skyler Schluter threw three touchdown passes, including his final one while escaping the heavy pressure of two oncoming rushers.
Summit captured its ninth state championship in the playoff era and fifth in North 2, Group 3. Summit's previous two state titles were in N2, G3 in 2012 and 2013.
For head coach Kevin Kostibos this was the second time he led the Hilltoppers to a state championship. The first was in his initial season at the helm in 2013.
Summit will next play North 1, Group 3 state champion Ramapo (12-0) in Saturday's 10 a.m. Bowl Game at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford. I guess it will be called the North, Group 3 Bowl Game. Nobody knows for sure yet.
"For us it will be icing on the cake," Kostibos said. "We're going to enjoy this for awhile and then start to prepare.
Summit captured its second state championship at home and first since 1993. This was only the third state championship game played at Tatlock Field and the first since 1995.
For the first time Summit is a state champion before Thanksgiving.
Summit scored on its first possession. Lusardi got loose for a 57-yard run down the left sideline. Two plays later he scored from one yard out to give Summit the lead for good.
Lusardi carried the ball eight times for 89 yards.
Schluter hit Lusardi over the middle for a 12-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter. That score was set up by Kelly's first interception, which was also on a pass over the middle intended for Rahway senior running back Dashon Moore. On the ground Moore finished with 36 yards on eight carries.
Schluter and Lusardi hooked up again for a six-yard touchdown pass with four minutes and change to go before intermission. Lusardi's second two-point run put the Hilltoppers in front 22-0.
Rahway answered with a touchdown drive the Indians had to have to stay in the game. Robinson reached freshman Mark Bails on a 20-yard touchdown pass in the right corner of the end zone to pull Rahway to within 22-6.
Rahway began the second half in much better fashion, scoring the first time it had the ball. This time it was senior running back Zion Pendleton reaching the end zone on an eight-yard run to cap a 48-yard drive. His long kickoff return gave Rahway good field position to start at the Summit 48.
Because of a right leg injury he suffered on defense afterwards that was Pendleton's last carry. He finished with 53 yards on 12 attempts.
Rahway's defense continued to hold Summit in check to give the offense a chance to do further damage.
However, Kelly's play on defense sparked a bend-but-not-break effort by that unit which was good enough to deliver Summit its first state championship in five years.
Jackson led all rushers with 177 yards on 25 carries. He had 96 on 20 before his 70-yard touchdown run.
Schluter completed seven-of-11 passes for 94 yards, three touchdowns and one interception. Rahway senior Brandon Burnett came up with his third interception in the last two games.
On Schluter's final completion he rolled right to escape two Rahway defenders out to sack him. Schluter led Kelly beautifully with a short pass that Kelly took with momentum the rest of the way.
Rahway will close a highly-successful season on Thanksgiving at Johnson (5-5) of Clark. It will be the final Thanksgiving Day game between the neighboring towns.
Rahway is still one win away from reaching 10 victories for the first time since the 2008 team closed 10-2. That was Rahway's last team that reached a state championship game before this year. Rahway last won a state title in 1984.
Summit capitalized on a turnover – an interception by Jack Kelly.
after a strip of the ball by Jack Kelly.


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Han Sorya: North Korea's Literary Lion
If you could choose a single novelist to represent the legacy and aspirations of twentieth century America, who would it be? F. Scott Fitzgerald? William Faulkner? Toni Morrison? John Steinbeck? Admittedly, the choice is artificial; there are no wrong answers here, only degrees of emphasis.
For a North Korean confronting a similar question, one name would readily spring to mind: Han Sorya (1900-1976). And further, there is one particular work, a short story, with which Han is especially identified: Sungynangi [Jackals] (1951), one of the few North Korean works of literature available in English translation.
Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995, includes two reports of literary criticism of Han Sorya's work: Modern Korean Literature and Han Sor-ya (JPRS 5745); and Han Sol-ya and his Literature (JPRS 5874). Translated directly from original North Korean sources, they convey a sense of how Han's work is viewed in his native cultural context.
Han occupied a prominent place in Korean cultural and political life. He was born in the north of Korea during the period of Japanese occupation, and he studied sociology in Tokyo before returning to Korea in the 1920s. In 1925 he joined the Korean Artists Proletarian Federation and integrated themes of socialist class consciousness into his writing.
History Real and Imagined: Russians at War in Art and Life from Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995
Posted on Fri, 8/18/2017 - 3:54
Among the many interesting aspects of Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995, is the inclusion of full-length novels. This month we have such two works by Vasiliy Ardamatskiy, similar in scope and subject matter to Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago.
Alongside Ardamatskiy's fictional accounts of revolutionary Russia we pair historical nonfiction relating to Soviet naval warfare and military communications during World War II. Finally, we'll add excerpts from a 1972 monograph that requires little interpretation, on the all-too-real technology of ballistic missile launch and control systems.
Vozmezdie [Retribution], by Vasiliy Ardamatskiy; Moscow, Molodaya Gvardiya 1968
Born in 1911, Ardamatskiy was a child of the Russian Revolution who wrote adventure fiction and who was reputed to be linked to the KGB. His career as a radio journalist brought him close to the battle lines during World War II, especially during the Siege of Leningrad.
In Retribution he gives compelling characterizations of the real-life terrorist Boris Savinkov, and of Felix Dzerzhinskiy, head of the feared Cheka, precursor to the KGB. Among other honors, the KGB Prize of the USSR in the field of literature and art was awarded to Ardamatskiy.
Five New Bookmarks and Posters Available for Readex Collections
Posted on Fri, 8/18/2017 - 10:49
For libraries looking to create awareness and increase usage of their Readex collections, we have created five more sets of posters and bookmarks to support those goals.
The artwork for each of these items may now be individually downloaded for local printing. To download artwork for one or more of the five posters seen immediately below, please contact the Readex marketing department. To download bookmark artwork, please click on the links below the posters.
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The Brief, Wondrous Life of Lafcadio Hearn: Tracking the Author, Journalist and 19th-Century World Traveler through Historical Newspapers
An American author and literary figure in the last quarter of the 19th century, Lafcadio Hearn was known for his fiction and his reportage from the Caribbean and Japan. His own life, however, was as fascinating as fiction itself, and his biography reads like a Charles Dickens novel that morphs into a Hemingway memoir.
Born to a Greek mother and an Irish father, Hearn was brought up in Greece, Ireland, England and France. After moving to Dublin when he was five, his parents divorced. His mother remarried and returned to Greece, while his soldier father was sent to India with his new wife. Hearn was left in Ireland with his aunt, Sarah Brenane, who sent him to a Catholic school in France on the advice of her financial advisor, Henry Molyneux.
From there, Hearn went to yet another school in England, but was forced to leave when Molyneux suffers some financial setbacks. His aunt died and Molyneux became her heir. When Hearn turned nineteen, Molyneux gave him a ticket to New York City. From there, he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where a relative of Molyneux's was supposed to help him, but didn't. Hearn lived in abject poverty. But thanks to his multinational upbringing, he was literate and knew several languages.
Americans-looking-at-Russians-looking-at-Americans: The 'USSR Report. USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology' Series from JPRS
In highlighting this month's release of Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995, we shift our focus from monographs and shorter individual reports to a single series, USSR Report. USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology. This will allow us to indulge in the meta-perspective of Americans-looking-at-Russians-looking-at-Americans across a broad range of issues.
Along with the shift in focus, we'll travel forward in time as well, from the 1960s of our most recent releases, to 1980. Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev was in the last years of his life, the Soviet Union had just invaded Afghanistan, and the economy stumbled along at the tail end of what has been called the Era of Stagnation.
Meanwhile, the United States was boycotting the Moscow Summer Olympics in protest against the Soviet-Afghan War, Ronald Reagan was elected President, and the Iran Hostage Crisis was fresh in the nation's memory. Three Mile Island was still hot. It wasn't quite "morning in America' (from Reagan's 1984 campaign), but the Reagan presidency hinted at resurgence. What did the Soviets make of that?
Shift to the Right—Imaginary and Real
SSHA: Ekonomika, Politika, Ideologiya, Moscow, No. 12, December 1979. 17 pages
Cooperatives and Cooperation: Highlights from Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995
Two of the fundamental tenets of communism at the international level were that communist countries worked together to achieve their mutual ends, and that their economic and political development was peaceful rather than imperialistic.
From 1957 to 1960, as the dust settled from uprisings in Hungary and Poland, things were relatively tranquil within the Eastern Bloc. At a greater remove—and especially with regard to China—fraternal relationships and a unified front were a bit more difficult to maintain. Still, prior to 1960 the Sino-Soviet argument over communist "peaceful coexistence" with capitalist countries had not yet reached a critical point.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a few years off, the U2 Incident (May 1960) was just over the horizon, the echoes of Secretary Khrushchev's 1956 threat to "bury" the West had largely subsided, and he had not yet pounded a UN podium with his shoe. So in this month's highlights from Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995, we'll witness communist countries generally playing nicely on the international stage.
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Charter and Convention
Vedomosti Verkovnogo Soveta Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (Gazette of the USSR Supreme Soviet), Moscow, Vol. XXIII No. 15, April 1960. 19 pages
The Russia Connection: Historical Proposals to Reestablish a Land Link across the Bering Strait
There's general agreement that as recently as 11,000 years ago the Asian and North American continents were connected by a land bridge over which hominids and other animals crossed. Today, the Bering Strait is only about 50 miles wide at its narrowest point, and less than 200 feet deep.
Two small islands are situated midway between the continental land masses. Big Diomede Island belongs to Russia; Little Diomede Island belongs to the United States. The islands are separated by approximately two miles—and the International Date Line.
For reference, the English Channel, between the United Kingdom and France, is about 20 miles wide and similar in depth to the Bering Strait. An undersea tunnel was proposed there during the 19th century, and has since been completed. The Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Indian Ocean, was built in 1869. The Panama Canal was completed in 1914. In keeping with these ambitious projects, some structure across or beneath the Bering Strait has long been suggested as both practical and possible.
The Culture of Communism: Highlights from Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995
So much of communism is given over to building more and better widgets—collectively, of course, according to a centralized plan stretching over a number of years. Beyond the tractors and satellites, it's worth noting that the communists were also building their people by exercising strict control over the national culture. Indeed, the real flavor of communism can more readily be experienced through its cultural expressions rather than its production schedules.
In this month's highlights from Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995, we'll explore popular culture, religion, psychology and the communist approach to enforcing orthodoxy in all of the above.
Radio and Television—The Weapons of the Party
Kommunist (Communist), Moscow, No. 5, March 1960. 18 p.
Don't look for independent journalism here, this is sled-dog journalism—no time for reactionary excursions, and everybody pulling in a line—the party line. And no child is left behind with youth programming about tractor operators, industrial brigades, and the series "Follow the Example of the Communists." Consider the title of this report: a political elite wielding mass media—as a weapon against the heterodox members of its own social order.
Peculiarities of the Development of Literature in Socialist Countries
Kommunist (Communist), Moscow, No. 12, August 1959. 17 p.
'American Libraries' Reports on Twentieth-Century Global Perspectives
In the Solutions section of its May 2017 issue, American Libraries writes:
"Readex…has introduced a new family of primary source archives. Twentieth-Century Global Perspectives brings together digital resources comprising primary source documents from around the world that focus on five separate categories: apartheid; American race relations; the Cold War; immigrations, migrations, and refugees; and the Middle East and North Africa. Each of these categories includes original sources, such as government publications, newspapers, and transcribed television and radio broadcasts, as well as US government analysis, collected by the CIA between 1941 and 1996.
"With increasing interest in immigration, race relations, unrest in the Middle East, and tensions between the US and Russia, these collections offer access to valuable sources that can provide history and context for current situations. The focus on sources from outside the US also allows researchers to explore these topics beyond current political frameworks.
'This Execrable Commerce….This Assemblage of Horrors': Highlights from Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922
Posted on Mon, 5/22/2017 - 12:55
The May release of Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922: From the Library Company of Philadelphia includes several editions of Henry Home, Lord Kames' Sketches of the History of Man, a fictional account of the American South, and an extensive collection of Thomas Jefferson's writings.
Sketches of the History of Man (1775)
By Henry Home, Lord Kames
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) was a Scottish judge, philosopher, and writer. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, he boasts David Hume, Adam Smith, and James Boswell as protegees. Introducing this multi-volume work, Home writes:
Whether there be different races of men, or whether all men be of one race, without any difference but what proceeds from climate or other accident, is a profound question of natural history, which remains still undetermined after all that has been said upon it.
In attempting an answer Home argues against the then speculative idea of evolutionary change over time and Carl Linnaeus's earlier recognition of the hierarchical nature of species. Home shares with Linnaeus, however, the notion species are fixed according to Providence. Attempting to support his assertion, Home conflates species, breed, and kind before turning to special pleading.


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Julie Goes to College
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Julie sat in her room. She felt a little weird being in college now. She began to unpack. Her parents had just left so she was alone. Her room was a double, her roommate was a sophomore named Susan. She was still at cheerleader practice. Julie felt a pang of jealousy like she always did when she thought of cheer leaders. They always seemed so unbearably sexy. Julie in comparison was just an average girl from a catholic school since preschool.
Her room was the last on the girls' side of the dorm. There was no door to the boys' side but it made her feel a bit unholy. Well, she didn't come to college to feel holy, she came to learn. Susan came in to the room. She was still wearing her cheerleader costume. "Hey you must be Julie" she said thrusting out her hand.
"Hi," Julie took it and noticed just how soft it was. "So which bed do you want?"
Susan laughed "Oh we're not keeping these ratty old things, we're getting a new one."
Julie saw no problem with the old beds but as long as Susan was paying she was fine. Julie finished unpacking while Susan took a shower. Julie was about to leave when Susan stopped her "wait, help me." Julie didn't want to make an enemy of the girl she would have to spend the next year with so she helped.
The 2 went to classes and luckily, it being the first day, neither had too much homework to do. Julie was all ready to go to bed when Susan grabbed her hand and pulled her close. "Do you want to try out for cheer leading?"
Julie was taken aback, she had no talent in athletics. "Not really, I'm more into drama and I'm not very athletic."
"You don't have to be, you just have to be sexy in college." Susan said.
Julie laughed "I may not know much about it, but I'm confident that you need to be athletic."
"No, your job is to distract the audience from watching your team fail because they too are watching you." Julie had never thought of it like that. "I'll show you, bend over." Julie obeyed "Now that is stretching. The only difference is that your back should be to me and you should take off your pants." Julie raised an eyebrow "let me show you." Julie took off her skirt and stood in only her underthings. "Now when I bend over, think that you are a horny 18 year old boy." Julie tried. She could see that Susan was hot.
"Okay so I could warm up with you, but I can't do the actual cheering." Julie imagined the girls doing splits and handstands and standing on each other's backs.
"Come to practice tomorrow, just watch me and find out how it is done." She told Julie.
"fine, I'll cheer on the cheerleaders." Julie jokes.
When school finished, Julie and Susan both went back to the dorm to do homework.
"How do you spell hypocrite?" asks Susan.
"H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E." Julie answers. Susan thanks her and tells her she is really smart. Susan asks her to help her spell more words, then she asks Julie for help in math. After about 40 minutes of listening to Julie explain Susan just tells her to do it. "But then you won't learn."
"House wives of rich guys don't need to be smart, just hot when they are 20." Julie realizes that çapa escort it is sadly true. She does Susan's homework and her own before they go to cheerleading practice.
When they get there, the coach tells Julie that she should try out. "I'm not very athletic." Julie tells the 30 year old man.
"Put this on and say that again." He gives her a pink top and a mini skirt. Julie looks at it in horror but then she sees Susan, well if Susan doesn't have a problem with it, what right does she have to?
Julie goes into the girls' locker room and puts it on. She feels a bit exposed but decides that if it is what cheer leaders do, then who is she to argue. When she goes out to the field, the coach tells her that she is going to go on the top since she is so light. Julie gets on Susan's back and then shoulders, she is good at cheer.
"Nice job Julie." Susan says as they walk off the field together "I think you should formally try out, but keep in mind, you don't need to wear that obvious white underwear, you can do more if you don't limit yourself to underwear." Julie thinks about it and notes that Susan herself does wear underwear, but maybe once you are on the team a while, you get so good that underwear doesn't stop you.
"Sure Susan, I won't wear underwear when I cheer, that is if I get on the team." Julie tells her.
When they get back to their room, Susan changes. Julie just sits on her bed. "What are you doing Julie?" Susan asks as she comes back out of the bathroom.
"I have no plans so I was just sitting here." Julie admits.
"I'm going to the mall with a couple of friends, want to tag along?" Susan asks.
Julie can't process how nice she is being, does she WANT to? She had been hoping that by the end of the first month of college she would be invited by freshmen, not go to a sophomore get together in the first week. "I'd love to"
"Great." Susan says "But you aren't coming wearing that." Susan looks over Julie
"I usually just wear jeans and a tee." Julie tells Susan.
"Oh that won't do. You need to make an impression on the girls. You can only make one first impression." Susan goes through all of Julie's drawers without finding anything that caught her eye. "Ugh, Julie it's no wonder I'm your only real friend, you have nothing good. We're selling it all and buying new beds and some better clothes for you."
Julie feels ashamed that she didn't have a good taste. "I'm sorry Susan."
"Ugh, it's fine let's just get there early so we can buy you something to wear. Until then, wear my miniskirt and this skin tight spaghetti strap." Susan thrusts the clothes at Julie
"OK." Julie says. She goes to the bathroom and strips. She feels bad that she has made Susan so ashamed of her. She looks at herself in the mirror. She is a blonde. Her breasts are just small enough to know that they haven't been altered, her ass is very tight and her vagina is very hairy since she doesn't shave it. She feels her tender breasts before putting on her new bra and the shirt. It seems a bit to transparent for Julie's liking. The miniskirt looked fatih escort good though.
"I didn't tell you to wear that hideous bra!" Susan says as Julie comes back into the room. "Take it off. Now."
Julie feels bad and starts to go back to do so. "We don't have time just take it off here." Susan tells her. Julie turns around to hide her tits from Susan "Oh don't tell me your embarrassed." Susan says "You're not that small, turn around" Julie does trying to hide the red in her cheeks. Susan puts the shirt on Julie and feels her tits. "Relax girl, I'll make sure nobody is mean to my little whore."
Susan finishes putting on Julie's shirt and they go to the mall together. Julie stays next to Susan the entire time, afraid that the other girls will try to be mean to her. Then they go to Sleepy's. "We are getting a king sized, it looks better." Susan tells Julie.
Julie is happy to be able to share the bed with her friend. "What kind?"
"heart shaped one." Susan says.
She hops onto a bed with a red comforter and pink pillows. The price tag says $2350.
"Who is paying?" asks Julie.
"Well you of course, unless you want to stay a loser forever." Susan answers stroking Julie's hair.
Julie puts it on her credit card and they go back to school. The bed will be delivered tomorrow.
Susan and Julie get into the room. Susan puts on a big tee shirt as PJs, Julie is about to put on a tee as well when Susan grabs her arm "Sleep naked for me Julie." She takes her shirt back from her and takes off Julie's miniskirt. "Don't wear any more bras Julie." She says as she walks over to her bed.
"OK Susan." Julie says as she herself gets into her bed.
"Julie." Susan says "You don't jerk off much do you?"
Julie is taken aback, she had never in her life jerked off. "No, I would never!" she answers defensively.
"That's too bad, it's cool to, everyone who is cool does it." Susan says "Here I'll teach you." She gets out of her bed and walks over to Julie's bed. "get up bitch." She commands as she slaps Julie's bare breast. Julie obeys standing without trying to hide anything from her friend. "Now put your hand on your vagina." Susan says seductively. Julie obeys silently "Good now rub up and down." Julie obeys "Harder Julie." Susan tells her "Now put your finger inside yourself" Julie obeys "You are horrible, let me show you." Susan reaches out and rubs Julie's vagina. "See how I do it a little harder every time." She is right, she is much better than Julie.
She does it until Julie comes "I took about 3 minutes. Now you try, you'll take like an hour."
"OK Susan." Julie says as she tries again. Susan was right, it does take her a long time to come, almost 7 minutes.
"We'll try again later, get in your bed and go to sleep, I'm going to sell your clothes and buy you new ones." Susan says as she dumps all of Julie's clothes unceremoniously into a big trash bag.
Julie gets in her bed and wants to masterbate again. "Susan, can I jerk off again?"
Susan drops Julie's clothes and storms over to her. She slaps Julie's etiler escort cheek. "Don't you ever ask to jerk off again. I will tell you when you can touch yourself and when you are forbidden to. If you ever ask again, I will make sure you never make any friends ever!" She slaps Julie's cheek again for good measure.
"Yes Susan." Julie says fighting back the tears. She lies back down and goes to sleep.
When Julie wakes up she forgets where she is and why she is naked, then she remembers and smiles. She gets up and sees that her clothes are gone "Susan, where are my clothes?"
"Oh my little whore, those old stinkers? I got up early and sold them all. You still owe me $200 though." Susan answered.
"For what?" Julie asked.
"For the trouble of making you cool." Susan answered as she walked to the bathroom.
Julie didn't know what to do, she couldn't follow, she had no clothes to wear. She just waited for 30 minutes or so until Susan came back.
"Put on this miniskirt Julie." Susan handed Julie a piece of cloth that seemed as large as a single finger hole in a glove.
"What about my underwear?"
"You don't get to wear any from now on. You have to wear exactly what I tell you. If I don't tell you anything, don't wear anything." Susan said as she stroked Julie's bear breast.
"Okay Susan, I will" Julie says as she puts on the shirt.
Susan takes a sports bra out of the bag of new clothes and holds it up against Julie's bare breasts. "yup, pink was the way to go." She kisses one of Julie's breasts and puts the bra onto her toy.
"Susan, where is my shirt?" Julie asked as she stood in their room.
Susan grabbed Julie by the hair and thrust her onto her knees. "What did I tell you about questioning fashion?" She slaps her on the cheek and then pulls off the sports bra to bite Julie's left tit.
Julie screams in pain "Susan stop that it hurts" Julie ran out into the hallway with her bra still only half on.
"Get her John!" Susan said. Then Coach Thread came out of a secret passageway from the boy's side of the dormitory. He grabbed Julie by the wrist and whipped her around back into her room.
"Mr. Thread? What are you doing? Let me go-" She was interrupted when he thrust his cock down her throat. She didn't want to be expelled so she sucked.
"Good girl." Mr. Thread said "You are probably confused right now. Don't worry whore, Susan will make sure you have a place to sleep every night and food to eat every day. Susan is a sex slave dealer, and you were supposed to be sold, but she likes you and I do to so we have decided that as long as you promise not to tell anyone anything that happens while either of us are present you get to continue with your normal life, only a few changes." He pulled Julie's mouth off of his penis to let her answer.
"Okay sir, what do you want?" Julie asked and immediately after finishing her words he thrust her back onto himself.
"One. You wear exactly what Susan tells you to." Mr. Thread told Julie he let her nod her head. "Two, you will fuck who ever I tell you"
He pulled her head off of his penis "Yes sir."
"third," Susan said "You will not waste either of our time complaining that you don't want to do something, we are saving your life and even letting you continue your normal life so we don't want to hear it."
"Okay Susan" Julie said as she crawled back into their room with her new owners.
Birthday Present Initiation


On my trips to Copper Harbor, Pat's Foods in Hancock has been a regular stop of mine. This was before I got big on hitting up grocery stores for local products. The funny thing is I always stop for something unique in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; pasties. I also wash them down with a quart of milk. Yes, an actual quart. It's the only place I've seen a quart jug.
Pat's Foods is like any small town grocery store. They appear to have everything you need, including liquor. It's all wrapped up in a small building and some of the signage looks like it's been there a while. I love hitting up these smaller stores in more rural areas and Pat's is always a regular stop. The view is also great to sit and eat a pasty in the parking lot.


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Any flat bundle on a punctured disc has an oper structure
Frenkel, Edward and Zhu, Xinwen (2010) Any flat bundle on a punctured disc has an oper structure. Mathematical Research Letters, 17 (1). pp. 27-37. ISSN 1073-2780. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140919-152325394
We prove that any flat G-bundle, where G is a complex connected reductive algebraic group, on the punctured disc admits the structure of an oper. This result is important in the local geometric Langlands correspondence proposed in {FG}. Our proof uses certain deformations of the affine Springer fibers which could be of independent interest. As a byproduct, we construct representations of affine Weyl groups on the homology of these deformations generalizing representations constructed by Lusztig.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2010.v17.n1.a3 DOI Article
http://www.intlpress.com/site/pub/pages/journals/items/mrl/content/vols/0017/0001/a003/ Publisher Article
http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3186 arXiv Discussion Paper
© 2010 International Press of Boston, Inc. Received by the editors December 9, 2008. Revision received December 9, 2009. Supported by DARPA and AFOSR through the grant FA9550-07-1-0543. We thank D. Arinkin for suggesting a simpler proof of Proposition 6. E.F. thanks Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris for its support and the group "Algebraic Analysis" at Université Paris VI for hospitality. X.Z. thanks Zhiwei Yun for useful discussions.
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No more excuses! PSI statement for International Workers' Memorial Day, 28 April 2014
It is the duty of governments and enterprises to protect the health and safety of workers
On this International Workers' Memorial Day that commemorates workers who have died or suffered injury at work, Public Services International speaks out against the governments and enterprises that persist in ignoring their obligation to protect the health and safety of workers in their workplaces.
Worldwide, workers are asked to get more done, work harder, faster and more intensely, regardless of their physical capacity and regardless of the environmental conditions, because global competition is imposing schedules and output quotas that severely affect their working conditions and pose an increasing threat to their health and safety.
The world will mourn today in memory of the more than 1 100 victims and more than 2 000 injured at Rana Plaza, the factory building that collapsed in Bangladesh a year ago (25 April 2013).
This event shocked the world, yet progress in protecting the health and safety of workers remains intolerably and painfully slow, even nonexistent.
Countless employers persist in treating workers as a commodity, as a means to increase their profit, denying them their rights and preventing them from organizing so that they can have a trade union to support their claims and help them to fight for their rights, including the right to protection from disease and injury at work.
In the public services, working conditions are worsening because of austerity policies that cause cuts in public spending. This is having a strong impact on the health of workers, especially women workers.
In health and social care services, working conditions are aggravated by higher patient loads as workers are asked to provide more care with fewer staff. These conditions also cause more musculoskeletal damage to workers and provoke verbal and physical violence in the health workplace. Slashed budgets result in cost cutting on equipment which leads to needle stick injuries.
Health and social care workers are also exposed to increasing levels of stress and burnout in their frustration at having to meet the needs of patients with less time and fewer resources.
Privatization and outsourcing are also worsening the conditions of workers in this sector because requirements to protect workers' health are not passed on to the contractors, who feel no obligation otherwise to respect occupational health and safety standards.
Workers in the waste sector are most frequently unprotected and suffer many preventable injuries. Outsourcing has become the 'business model' whereby governments offload their responsibilities onto workers and their communities.
The energy sector, in particular in electricity, is fraught with dangers to workers. Both public and private employers are neglecting occupational health and safety measures as a way to cut costs. In some countries, the deaths and injuries are truly astounding.
Governments are misguided in cutting public services budgets; wisdom and a long-term view say that they should rather enforce the regulations and controls that ensure full respect for international labour standards to help avert the tragedy of workplace accidents, injuries and diseases.
The foundation for the protection of the health and safety of workers is, internationally, the recognition of trade unions rights.
A small minority of countries have ratified the three International Labour Standards on occupational safety and health considered fundamental (Nos. 155, 161 and 187). The failures of governments and of employers are shameful.
Public Services International proclaims today that disrespect for occupational health and safety is a crime, further delay in protecting workers is immoral, and the time to correct this violation of workers' rights is NOW!
EN 28 April statement
FR déclaration 28 avril
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Author: Heated Stew
An old man with little time, simultaneously, a lot of time, and lots to say - with opinions, born of life's lessons, on many subjects.
Is this person any more or less an Australian than those below?
Our oldest son with our granddaughter, his niece.
We can argue as much as people like about what date we should celebrate as Australia Day, but I would bet that whatever date is chosen the argument will continue! The argument is not only between those of different colours, but of what date we should choose from the arrival of us 'invaders' and the formation of different groupings with in Australia. My background is Caucasian, with grandparents from 4 countries – Sweden, Scotland, Wales and England, and my wife adds in Danish and English genes. The granddaughter, in my arms above, was born in Australia from an adopted Ethiopian son of ours, who is an Australian citizen and a mother, also from Ethiopia, who has permanent Australian Residency. And in our immediate family (the four generations springing from my wife and me) there are many Australian born, seven born in Ethiopia (2 white and five coffee coloured), one born in Malaysia and, in addition, a lot of Chinese and some Filipino genes.
Even in another country, I am an Australian!
And while I'm about it, I can add that I am not white – look at the picture above and you can see that I am light brown! In the background are a few of my Ethiopian 'brothers'.
My other close attachments are with the country of Ethiopia. How my heart aches for its people as they have gone through the civil unrest of the recent past and the even more major tragic events that have occurred there, even within my life time; the Italian invasion, the joining with and separation from Eritrea, the murder of their Emperor and the communist take over, divisions over language, customs, tribalism!
Let us all remember the past, but don't let it be a cause of division, rather repentance and forgiveness. Let's live in the present and as One People of many shades and ethnicity accepting our differences and pressing onto a future marked by acceptance, caring and mutual commitment to unity as far as possible. The unity will not be uniformity but may it be in a passionate desire to live at real peace.
Dominic Cartier
Heated Stew Uncategorized 5 Comments January 26, 2022 1 Minute
I'm pretty deaf, with combined middle and inner ear problems. I'd been taken in an ambulance to the Emergency Department of the local University Hospital. Years before I had been a consultant there for some time. After I had met the young Intern, a more senior guy came in. As you would expect he was masked and in a discernible slightly foreign accent said something, which was to me undecipherable. So with his mask down and me asking him to come nearer I understand that his name was Graeme and the accent marked him as a Scot. 'I know you he said.' I did not remember him at all until he said that he had worked, as an intern, in a country hospital about 130 Km away from my hometown and I had been flown in to deal with a young man whose motorbike handle had, when he hit a tree, gone into his upper abdomen and caused massive bleeding. I still didn't remember the doctor but I did remember the incident – some stories you don't forget!
There were no specialists at the hospital but the medical superintendent was a very experienced and highly capable GP. Early in the evening he called me and said that he had just ordered a plane to bring a team up to deal with the above described young man. 'Could I come, urgently?' 'The plane will be ready to take off in half an hour', he said. I owned a Mitsubishi Starion and (maybe illegally) had it up to 230 km per hour. Knowing how long it took to set up people and equipment for the journey by plane I told him that I would be there long before the plane was. And I was.
He was a very capable GP anaesthetist so I told him to get everything set up and knowing him to be a good diagnostician told him to be ready to start the moment I got there. The patient was shocked and being resuscitated as well as they were able, but the family were JW's and refused a blood transfusion. The parents had, however, agreed to allow me to transfuse him with his own blood, which I knew was collecting in big volumes in his abdomen.
He had a massive stellate tear of his liver. I rescued as much of his blood as I could and by filtering it through gauze, we put it into an emptied saline bottle and transfused it back into him. But I was losing him and bluntly sent out the message to the parents that if I couldn't give him more blood he was going to die. They agreed for a transfusion to be given, but there wasn't a store of transfusable blood.
As I said earlier the GP Superintendent was a champion guy. He had previously, knowing that such emergencies arose from time to time, formed a blood bank of living people who all had agreed that, if called upon in an emergency, they would come ASAP to the hospital and be bled. Three of the right grouping came and donated their blood.
The bleeding was so massive that after my attempts to stop it failed, all that I could do was put a large number of packs into the traumatised area thus controlled (stopped) the bleeding. He was sewn up and kept under the anaesthetic.
About a half an hour into the surgery the plane had arrived and the medical crew were very helpful when they joined us in the operating room. After a bit more stabilising of his condition he was flown back to our local city hospital. The next day he was flown about 1,500 Km to the capital city of the state for further definitive treatment under much better conditions. What follows I have only heard secondhand and some of my assumptions may be wrong. I think that the big boys in the big city assumed that the probably rather limited ability-wise country surgeon was making a mountain out of a molehill. For them it would be a 'cake walk'.
At any rate they took him back into the operating room, removed the stitches and the packs, but could not control the bleeding and had to end up repacking him and sewing him up again. Eventually he was transferred to the liver unit where he had about half his liver removed. He eventually recovered and went back to his local area. I hope that he and his parents were able to curb his desire to race his bike through the forest tracks!
Heated Stew Health, Medical cases, People I've known, Uncategorized 5 Comments December 29, 2021 3 Minutes
They're beautiful but I hate them!
I've had a week of visits to doctors. I am glad to discover that I am still alive. I know more about the workings of my heart; the complications of various medications; but on a positive side I have discovered that sleep apnoea is a real thing. And I'm getting used to using the contraption.
I had a good sleep last night. The app tells me that I have 1.4 episodes of apnoea per hour and that all of them have been managed properly. So after 8 hours sleep, undisturbed apart from the main disturbing problem of an aged man's continuous sleep, I was sitting at the table eating my pretty boring breakfast (I'm trying to lose weight) when I sat up with a jolt and yelled out to my wife (of 59 years) and my son for help.
Our sheep usually have a slow measured way of walking, nibbling as they go, but I saw a group racing lickity-split past our back house fence – chased by a dingo! Having lost too many lambs and some ewes to dingoes in the last year or so, yelling like a banshee, I hobbled to my ute and driving at about 70 km/hr along the road which I have signed up saying the limit is 15 Km/hr to get to where I knew the fence would entrap them. They were grouped in a corner of the fence but the dingo had disappeared. I fancy my yelling helped to speed the dingo on its way! So I checked the other mob of lambs (they're fattening nicely and look good) the members of which were happily munching away in another paddock with no dingo visible.
But as our neighbour saw a family of six of them just outside our place yesterday, we are very aware of their presence. Hopefully they will return as dust to dust soon, when they taste the goodies that we have for them. And if you feel sorry for them, I would prefer my sheep to be alive!
The men (2 sons, 1 grandson) returned to their job for the morning. They were moving a tank to collect water from an old shed and a skillion that we are adding onto the back of it. You need to be inventive as a farmer, and so it was successfully shifted! Water is precious here in the North!
Heated Stew Animal life, Family, Health, Uncategorized 3 Comments December 17, 2021 2 Minutes
The picture shows a severe case of bilateral TB. There are people who affirm that it is best treated by going to a holy place and drinking holy water. I don't agree.
We all know that languages change with time. When we first went to Ethiopia the common greeting in Amharic was 'tenastelign'. That was a brief, shortened way of saying "Igzehabier tena ystelign' which translated means 'May God give you health on my behalf.' If you wanted to say, 'How are you?', you had to choose one of three ways. You used one for females, one for males and another for important people. After some years away I went back after the Communist takeover had been overthrown. I went to a university teaching post. After a short time I found the students addressing me in what used to be the common feminine greeting but had now become the friendly greeting between people with whom you felt comfortable. They were really honouring me as someone they trusted. I had not lost respect. Older people still stood up when I walked into a room and said 'nuur' or something like 'May you live forever!'
The language had changed.
In English when the Bible was first translated into English the word 'conversation' referred to the way one lived. Today it means a talk together. A change occurring over time with usage. 'Gay' used to mean 'jolly' or 'happy' the meaning has been changed to mean what used to be thought of as a sexual perversion. 'Marriage' used to mean a state between a man and a woman wherein there was a commitment to sexual and emotional faithfulness, in a lifelong commitment. It was a basic functional unit of society. Today it seems to be either, for some, what it has always been, but for others an excuse for a party and a declaration that they are proud to be different and want to declare their situation as normal.
The first example (about conversation) which I gave, seems to me to be like dropping the 'ye' and 'thee' of older English for just 'you'. The next two seem to be purposeful alterations to fool the masses into seeing things differently and with the purpose of making, what was previously seen as immoral, acceptable.
The above is a prelude to the use of the word 'vaccine'.….
The meaning of 'vaccine' has been purposefully redefined by the government to include altered rna (ribonucleic acid) material being injected into people to alter the body's ability to immunologically respond to some outside attack. Previously a vaccine was always produced specifically to attack a specific infecting agent by using an attenuated bacterium or part of the troublesome 'germ'. I am not an expert and have no desire to be such, I am retired. But what concerns me is that the 'vaccines' being used against COVID 19, under the new definition, have not been, by usually accepted medical and legal standards, adequately tested. They are causing at least occasional, and some claim more frequent, deaths and serious complications. I have several personal contacts who have become seriously ill. And without a doubt there are a number of cases of significant heart problems (myocarditis and/or pericarditis) in young people.
Many experts, even though a minority, in the field have warned of late serious effects, maybe even in future generations. There is a sizeable body of reported deaths and significant immediate complications, enough I believe to stop the use of a new medication. Honest discussion is, I feel strongly, being suppressed by authorities and the mainline media. The statistics which we are fed seem slanted to a desired result. Can you remember – lies, damn lies and statistics?
I am not an anti-vaccine person by the old definition but am dubious about substances produced under this new definition until they have been adequately and thoroughly tested.
Heated Stew education, Health, Medical cases, Uncategorized 4 Comments November 11, 2021 November 11, 2021 3 Minutes
I write a daily devotional, and must confess that I've been slack in being involved with this blog. I wanted to get up to Christmas with the devotional ( https://as-i-read-it.com ) so that as it gets busier at this time of the year I would be well prepared. Nevertheless the last post which I wrote for heated stew received a comment requesting a few more memories of old cards – so here goes, four more!
from a surgical colleague.
The surgeon who sent this Christmas card to me was the senior registrar when I was an intern being trained at the QEH in South Australia. Several years later when I had very recently obtained my higher surgical degree and was making plans to go to the mission field in Ethiopia I had a phone call from him. I had several months to get things sorted out and was looking for a bit of assisting work until my departure.
He, however, wanted more than that. He wanted me to be a locum for him for a couple of months. He was off work because of an injury. He had been called in to assist an Obs/gynae friend at a difficult operation. The other chap had cut his hand and divided an extensor tendon on one of his fingers! This put him out of action as a surgical operator for some six weeks.
Later on when I had to leave Ethiopia for health reasons and when somewhat recovered was looking for work I did a year's locum – six months for him and six months for his then surgical partner.
While I was a medical student, there was a Billy Graham Crusade in Adelaide. I was a counsellor and amongst others had the privilege of counselling twin boys in their early teens. During the follow up of those contacts I got to know the family very well. The boys decision to become Christians took fire within the family. Their sister became a keen young Christian and the parents who for some years had stopped any church connection began going again. The father was a dentist and became my dentist for many years (I grew up on tank water and no fluorides and have had terrible teeth). The twins who are now well into their seventies and I keep sporadically in touch, and I read with interest comments which the sister frequently makes in Facebook. They have stuck with their decisions of that time.
This card must have been written in 1960, for that was when I turned 21. I spent the day in camp with my National Service Training Group on the South Coast of South Australia. I was given the evening off and my father picked me up and took me to a party in the local institute near our home. I arrived back in camp about 2 AM, fell into a deep sleep in my tent and woke up late for duty the next morning soaked through and sleeping in a puddle as it had rained very heavily during the early hours of the morning.
But the card has many more memories than that it was sent by an ex-missionary who was a fellow medical student but years older. He had been in Ethiopia when the Italians invaded. He fled to Kenya and joined the British Army (he was a N'Zer) as a private, rose to be a Lieut-Colonel, and was at the end of the war appointed as Governor of British Somalia. He decided to go back and do medicine in order to return to Ethiopia and help the people. He never made it. He found the medical course difficult and just at the end of sixth year dropped dead from a heart attack, helping a neighbour pushstart their car. He was one of those who encouraged me to consider Ethiopia as a place to work.
A very simple card from a very dignified and knowledgeable Reader in Anatomy. He went on to become a professor. I spent 12 months as a demonstrator in Anatomy in his department when studying for the first part of my FRACS degree. There were 12 of us at that level all studying for our primary part of the degree. As you can imagine that as we tutored students, studied, ate together, horsed around, went to the local pub for Friday lunch each week, a lot of things were discussed. It became clear that only 2 of us had a commitment to the Christian Faith. Most were atheistic or agnostic. Two were Jewish. It was not a divisive thing but we all knew what our attitudes were.
We twelve were part of the 51 who sat the exam, which we knew had a high failure rate. Only 13 passed and only four were sitting for the first time. But my friend and I were two of the four who passed first time, and the only ones who passed from our group of 12. The other ten put on a party for us but complained during the hilarious time 'It is not fair of God to bless those who believe in Him.' I'm sure that many Christians have failed first time up but the statement is interesting!
Heated Stew People I've known, Uncategorized 4 Comments October 7, 2021 3 Minutes


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